Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Britain had an interest in European co-operation it was as a way to withstand Soviet pressure and underpin British independence , not as a way to control Germany . |
| 2 | Well he he he was a sinful person , as we all are erm , I think he did not as the way I understand it , you know Jesus came perfect in everything but he had a he had a a message to give and he could give it better , I think because he had experienced so many things . |
| 3 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 4 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 5 | Yeah , and his books erm falling down the way , not up the way . |
| 6 | Eels come into it somehow , but not in a way that can be described in a family newspaper . |
| 7 | The problem of succession had by no means been solved , and certainly not in a way that could be used as a precedent for the future . |
| 8 | They should help small farmers , but not in a way that discourages them from getting larger or farming better : there must be no farming poverty trap . |
| 9 | The English mystics , like their European contemporaries , did foreshadow these changes , but not in a way that people who are familiar with more well-known fourteenth century English literature might expect . |
| 10 | The whole thing about a talk show is that you have to ask the questions that people are interested in — not in a way that puts the guest on the spot or makes them feel awkward — we 're not out to ‘ get ’ anyone , that 's not the idea of it at all — but certain things must be asked . |
| 11 | For Althusser does deal with this distinction — though not in a way Lukes can accept — by denying its validity . |
| 12 | Lord Atkinson in the House of Lords , at p. 235 , also discusses Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 , but not in a way which assists in the present case . |
| 13 | They may each act alone and without the agreement of the other but not in a way which is incompatible with the order ( s2(7) ( 8 ) ) . |
| 14 | Confer with clients on any material information received but not in a way that confuses them . |
| 15 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 16 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 17 | It 's obvious he is concerned about looks , but maybe not in the way other boys are . |
| 18 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 19 | He had indeed upset her , but not in the way he thought . |
| 20 | I sat and looked at what I had got to do and in quite lateral ways determined how to do it , which was not in the way they had always done it . |
| 21 | The teacher is telling a story in Yoruba , but not in the way 1 , an Englishman , would tell it . |
| 22 | They both retained a certain affection for me but not in the way I wanted . |
| 23 | So I put the knob where you can reach it , but it 's not in the way . |
| 24 | But it was not in the way that the poor had always looked alike — it was not , that is , because they were shabby , shoeless and grubby as moles — but because the gangs wished to look alike , and had adopted a uniform dress-style . |
| 25 | Several historians recently have suggested that it was certainly not in the way that had been intended . |
| 26 | I never really felt cared for , ever , not in the way of support . " |
| 27 | ‘ I am not in the way of trafficking with Humans , but I know of the Gruagach , ’ said the Robemaker , standing very still . |
| 28 | It thus becomes clear that the play of pronouns in the chiasmus of the narrative circuit through which the subject plays out its split existence does indeed function as an ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ in Thru , though not in the way Greimas intended . |
| 29 | " Well , not in the way you mean . |
| 30 | ‘ Not in the way you mean . |